Printing piate and supporting sheet



Aug. 15, 1950 Filed Dec. 4, 1945 D. H. FARRINGTON PRINTING PLATE AND SUPPORTING SHEET 2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed 1m. 4, .1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Aug. 15, 1950 D. H. FARRINGTON 18,535

PRINTING PLATE AND S UPPORTING SHEET Patented Aug. 15, 1950 RRINT ING' D SUPFOR'EING' Donna; HI. Remington Boston Massi, assignon to Earrihgton Manufacturing, Gompany, Boston; Massga corporation ofMassachusetifs V A ppiioation Decemben 4, 1945,SeliaLNOt-682Z718 In; the art. of? printing. pllatesof thetype: com prising a thin metallic plate whichmay be-readily carried in the pocket or in a purse, the plate. being embossed to provide printing type comprising a name amt address. or other suitable inelicia, it is. often ..desirable.- detachably to mount the: plate one-pardon other sheet materiall. One. example is the, case of an: unemployment in: sur'ance com-mission which issues; to each insured person both. aprihting. plate carrying hisname" and address and also. an. insurance book includ ing. appropriate data and: places for stamps to be cancelled by. Writingothe. employer-3s-.numbe1 across thef acevofi thestamps. Inasmuch asithe: hook. and, plateare presented. together it is de si'rahleto have the;par-ts detachabl-y interconnectedso that they may be kept'landpanniedasaiunit and. sothat they. may. be conveniently detached. f'iom .e'acii othenwhen renewal'b'oolis are. issued .orwhen theprintihgplat'e-is separated from,the book and..attachedlito. a .fi'le candi'nthe. insiirance. ofli'oe whileithe' individual is. receiving, henefits.

v (jbjbqt'sl-of'. the. pi esent'inventionare. to provide a. printing plate of. the'type ahove referred to which simpleandl economialI inconstruction-,- Wl'iibfl istoomp'acti and convenient in use; which can readily-be attached. to acard-on other sheet Withoutweakening or causing, the cardion other... sheet" to he. susceptihl'e. to inadvertent? Bending; or distortion,v whi'chbwhil'e attachedi to the card. or other sheet fiimlyfsup'p'ort'ed thereon, which does not requireanyiock.ordetentito h'ol'dIit' in place on. the card or other: sheet," which does not become deta'che'di aecitlentally andi which is" dumore andfreliableiin usez "According" to the present inventioii the sheet to which the printing: plate" is to" he deta'ohably c'onnec'tedfis'zprovidednvith slots and the printing plate" hasiiangeg along its margins for engagem'enfw'ith" the sheet, certaiiiof the. flanges e'xtendingalong one side of the sheetapproxiinately irith'e plane of the plate and otheriof the flanges. extendingthroughthe aforesaidslot's and'thence alojngthe other side of the sheet: In the. preferfedembodime'nti the flanges are divid'ecl'into two sets, one" set: comprising end 'fianges; adjacent the-ends of the aforesaid margins. and the other s'et"comprising intermediate flanges, the flanges of'o'ne setiextendingalong. one sideofthe-sheet 59? approximately in, the" plane of. the. plate and the. flanges o' f"the other set. extending through the slots-Land lthenoe along. the. other. side oi the sheet. P Lrefera-bl'y. itiis, the flanges. of the end set which extend along the'samesideof-the sheet as the 5m U. S. Patent 1,801,593 for engagement witlpthe Fig.3 is a perspective View. of: the plate before:

the. indicia isernbossedlthereongl Fig. 4=is a section of-line 4'-4'of'Fi'g-. 1-;- Fig. 5 isaview: similar to-Eig. 1 showing-a mo difioatiom with apart of the plate'brokenawa-yand. showing the plate: before it has-been-em-- bossedj V a Fig. .6" is. a perspeotive viewof therplate'shown in Fig.5; I

Fig '7 is .a perspectiveview ofamodified-plate;

Fig. 8 is ail-edge-- View. of. theplate shown in Fi 7';

Figs. .9 and 1.0 are views like Big. 2 show=ing t'wo modifications Figs- 11' and 12 are-.views like: Eig.- 1 except they are. from the inside ot the: front coveroithe. booli insteadioflfnomthe.outside,showings-the way, the modified plate of. Figs. 7-:and-8- is applied to the cover, .Fig. 1 1 showingrthe' platein an in-- termediate. position which it occupies While being:

mounted. onthe cover and Fig. 12% showing. theplate in final position The particular: embodiment. of; the. invention illustrat'ecl inwFi'gse 1. to 4 comprises abooklet which hasa cover foldediat lto f orma front 2 and. av back. 3. with intermediate sheets-he1cl in: place bya. staple 4 Asshowniin Fig. Z thefrontcover 2 is provided. with-two slots 5- each havingan' offset. portion 6'. attheupper.- end}. the oi fsetportionsextending away. fmomeach other. The printing plate. 1 has endIfianges 8 -8,, titandit which are disposedLinthesame-plane as theplate' itself. and intermediate: flanges: LZand l3 which are offset. from'the plane of'the plate adistanceapproximately equalto the thickness of therf ront Coven 2... While the characters. l4which-are embossed on-the face of thezpninting plate may be: in reversed. order for printing. through an ink: ribbon or carbon paper they; are preferably in" non-reverse order as deSoI i-Uedaand claimed in slots 5. By making the length of the flanges l2 and 13 approximately equal to that of the slots the upper ends of the flanges l2 and I3 abut the upper ends of the slots 5 when the plate has been fully inserted. After the flanges l2 and,l3 have been inserted in this manner the flanges 8, 9, Ill and l I extend approximately in the plane of and outwardly away from the platejand along the outer surface of the cover 2 transversely of and across the line of the slots 5 and the flanges I2 and 13 extend through said slots and thence outwardly away from the plate and slots along the opposite side of the sheet thereby firmly to support the plate on the sheet and to reduce the tendency of the sheet to bend along the lines of said slots. With the flanges seating against both sides of the cover 2 in this way there is substantially no danger of the plate becoming detached accidentally. However, by flexing the cover 2 at the offset portion 8, the plate may be slipped out of the slots without dificulty.

The modification shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is similar to the preferred embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 4 except in that the end flanges l5, l5, l! and 18 are offset instead of being straight and the intermediate flanges l9 and 20 are straight instead of being offset. As shown 'in Fig, 5 the book for use with this modified plate has four slots 2!,22, 23 and 24 instead of two,'the slots being equal in length to the length of the end flanges l5, l6, l7 and i8, and each-of the slots having an ofiset portion at the upper end as in the first embodiment. Of course it will be understood that in each embodiment the offset portions of the slots could be at the lower-ends of the slots instead of the upper ends. However accidental displacement of the plates is minimized by placing them at the upper ends of the slots.

The plate shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is like that shown in Figs. 1 to 4 in that it has end flanges 28, 29, and 3! in theplane of the plate and intermediate oifset flanges 32 and 33. However unlike the first embodiment the modified plate has undercuts 34 at each end of the oflset portion of each of the flanges 32 and 33. To mount this plate on a card Mhaving slots 35with offset portions 36 (Figs. 11 and 12) the plate'is first inserted downwardly to the position shown in Fig. 11 after which it is raised to the position shown in Fig. 12 where the upper ends ofthe flanges 32 and 33 overlap the side of the card 34 opposite the side of the end flanges 28 to 3! above the QE- set slots 36. Thus the'plate is securely locked to the card without danger of being displaced accidentally. With undercuts at the bottom as well as the top of the flanges'32 and 33, the slots need not be quite so long as the flanges. It will be understood of course that the undercuts could be omitted at the bottom in which case the slots 35 mustbe at least as long as the flanges 32' and 33.

The modification shown in Fig. 9 differs from The modification shown in Fig. 10 is intended for use with a plate such as shown in Fig. 6. Instead of having four short slots as in Fig. 5 the card 31 has two long slots 38. In mounting the plate of Fig. 6 in the card of Fig. 10 the flanges l1 and I8 are first inserted in theslots and then as the plate reaches its lowermost position the flanges l5 and f6 enter the slots. In this case the length of the slots 38 is equal to that of the plate.

It should be understood that the present disclosure is for the purpose of illustration only and that this invention includes all modifications and equivalents which fall within the scope of the appended claims. For example each of the illustrated embodiments may have offset slots which are either horizontal as shown in Figs. 2 and 10 or oblique as shown in Fig. 9, and each of the embodiments may have .undercuts as shown at 34 in Figs. 7 and 8 and the undercuts may be at both ends of the flanges or they may be only at the ends adjacent the offset portions of the slots.

I claim:

1. A printing plate oposite margins of which each have flanges, each flange extending throughout only a portion of the length of the margin, at least one of the flanges of each of said margins extending in the plane of and outwardly away from the plate, and at least-one other flange of each of said margins being offset from but parallel to the plate and connected to the plate by an intermediate portion inclined at an angle to the plate, the free marginal portion of the offset flange projecting outwardly beyond that portion of the plate which is intermediate said opposite margins.

2. A printing plate opposite margins of which each have at least three flanges, the flanges being of two kinds, the flanges of each kind extending throughout only a portion of the length of the margin, the flange of one kind extending in the plane of and outwardly away from the plate, and the flange of the other kind being offset from but parallel to the plate and connected to the plate by an intermediate portion inclined at an angle to the plate, the free marginal portion of the offset flange projecting outwardly beyond that portion of the plate which is intermediate said opposite margins, the flange of one kind alternating with the flange of the other kind along the length of the margin.

3. An article of the character referred to comprising a flexible sheet and a printing plate detachably attached thereto, the sheet having slots extending along opposite margins of the plate, the Opposite margins of the plate each having flanges, each flange extending throughout only a portion of the length of the margins, at least one of the flanges of each of said margins extending in the plane of and outwardly away from the plate and along one side of the sheet transversely of and across the line of the slots which extend along such margins, and at least one other flange of each of said margins being offset from but parallel to the plate and connected to the plate by an intermediate portion inclined at an angle to the plate and extending through the slots, the free marginal portion of the oflset flange projecting outwardly beyond that portion of the plate which is intermediate said opposite margins and along the other side of the sheet, thereby firmly to support the plate on the sheet and to reduce the tendency of the sheet to bend along the lines of the slots.

5 4. An article of the character referred to comprising a flexible sheet and a printing plate detachably attached thereto, the sheet having slots extending along opposite margins of the plate,

the opposite margins of the plateeach having at least three flanges, the flanges being of two kinds, the flanges of each kind extending throughout only a portion of the lengths of the margins, the flange of one kind extending in the plane of and outwardly away from the plate and along one side of the sheet transversely of and across the line of the slots which extends along such margins, and the flange of the other kind being off set from but parallel to the plate and connected to the plate by an intermediate portion inclined at an angle to the plate and extending through the slots, the free marginal portion of the offset flange projecting outwardly beyond that portion of the plate which is intermediate said opposite margins and along the other side of the sheet, the flange of one kind alternating with the flange of the other kind along the length of the margin thereby firmly to support the plate on the sheet and to reduce the tendency of the sheet to bend along the lines of the slots. 1

5. An article of the character referred to comprising a flexible sheet and a printing plate detachably attached thereto, the sheet having slots extending along opposite margins of the plate. the opposite margins of the plate each having flanges, each flange extending throughout only a portion of the length of the margins, at least one of the flanges of each of said margins extending in the plane of and outwardly away that portion of the plate which is intermediate said opposite margins and along the other side of the sheet, thereby firmly to support the plate on the sheet and to reduce the tendency of the sheet to bend along the lines of the slots, the slots having offset portions at one end to receive the offset flanges and the same end of the offset flanges being undercut so that said ends of the opposite flanges may overlap the sheet beyond the offset portions of the slots.

DONALD H. FARRINGTON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,026,247 Duncan May 14, 1912 1,818,830 Van Dusen Aug. 11, 1931 1,899,072 Anthony Feb. 28, 1933 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 627,517 Germany Mar. 17, 1936 

